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| Date: | 06 17 1932 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mary Wright (Mrs. H. Foster) Bain, who flew her own airplane from her home in Newark, N.J. to her University of Wisconsin reunion. She is posin... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Private William Huneke and Sargeant Harold Gleaves checking in a stack of mail from soldiers and sailors at the fighting fronts of the world for the United... |
| Date: | 07 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Clifford Thompson, the second tallest man in the world, being sworn into the Wisconsin state bar at the Wisconsin State Capitol by Justice Elmer E. Barlow.... |
| Date: | 11 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Miss Ellen C. Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College, on her 95th birthday. Miss Sabin was one of America's most eminent woman in the field o... |
| Date: | 11 15 1948 |
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| Description: | People at the speakers' table at the dinner marking the start of the University of Wisconsin's foundation's centennial campaign. From left are Herbert V. K... |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Participants at the head table of the annual University of Wisconsin football banquet in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. From left are: Robert "Red" ... |
| Date: | 02 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Professors Vernon Carstensen (left) and Merle Curti, with their wives, cutting the ceremonial cake at the testimonial luncheon in their honor as authors of... |
| Date: | 11 12 1949 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin senior law students take part in the tradition of tossing their canes over the south goal post crossbar at Camp Randall stadium. Th... |
| Date: | 09 18 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the twin caskets of University of Wisconsin president Glenn Frank and Glenn, Jr. in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda at the state funer... |
| Date: | 10 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Five of the seven speakers at the John R. Commons birthday banquet Tuesday night in Hotel Loraine gathered for small talk before the banquet. Left to righ... |
| Date: | 04 03 1951 |
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| Description: | Raymond Rowley, roasting and meat chef, carves one of the twelve turkeys prepared for the Smorgasbord at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union. |
| Date: | 04 03 1951 |
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| Description: | Paul Cleary gets instructions on how to decorate a baked ham from head chef Maurice Comos for the Smorgasbord at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union... |
| Date: | 10 16 1951 |
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| Description: | Ninety five Madison area building trades apprentices received certificates of graduation to journeymen status at a banquet at the Hotel Loraine. Shown at t... |
| Date: | 04 24 1952 |
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| Description: | Visiting French journalists on a U.S. tour arranged by the Department of Defense, had a surprise dinner meeting with Claudine Canetti, Paris (center), a j... |
| Date: | 06 18 1918 |
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| Description: | Dedication ceremony for Muir Knoll on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Judge Milton S. Griswold is speaking at flag-draped podium, and a ... |
| Date: | 10 31 1953 |
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| Description: | Senior law students throw canes over the goalpost at the University of Wisconsin Homecoming Game against Iowa. Nearly one hundred students, including four ... |
| Date: | 03 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Three Delta Gamma sorority members model formal long dresses in preparation for the alumnae group's annual bridge party and style show. From left, they are... |
| Date: | 06 19 1954 |
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| Description: | One of three negatives that make a panorama of University of Wisconsin graduates and families sitting in the stands at Camp Randall Stadium during graduati... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | International Harvester salesmen gather at a table to share a meal at the company farm at Tifton. International Harvester offered classes on the farm in or... |
| Date: | 03 20 1956 |
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| Description: | Attending the annual Matrix Banquet are Helen Worden Erskine (left), guest speaker, and Jane Johannsen, president of the U.W. Chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, t... |
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